A European Commission report includes data on the 2006 salaries of thousands of scientists working in the public and private sectors across 38 countries.
The result shows that the chinese scientists are the cheapest among them. From the picture below, we can see that Chinese scientists have one of the greatest gap between the salary adusted for cost of living and nominal salary, and the Indian scientists also have. However, most of Chinese scientists, like professors in universities, always have cars. Of course, not every scientist has it. This phenomenon in China explains that why ... . Let ourselves think it seriously.
Moreover, scientists in some countries have more nominal salary than their cost of living, such countries are Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany, UK, France, Italy, Australia and Japan, while scientits in other countries have less nominal salary than their cost of living, but in those contries of scientists with less nominal salary than cost of living, US has the smallest gap. However, US is still the greatest advanced scientific and technological country in the world.
(The picture is from http://zhiqiang.org/blog/posts/income-of-chinese-researchers.html)